“Richard Halperin must have lodged for a time with the sea-charts in the map-room of one of Calvino’s Invisible Cities
and one practised by my father and mother
Carol Rumens is admired as much for her technical brilliance as for the range
Take a dilapidated castle in the Scottish Highlands
Samuel Shimon: Royal Silver excerpt from novel
Nadir Rosie Driffill “Richard Halperin must have lodgedThere are 35 million child refugees in the world today; over a million children were born in flight, in exile, in camps. While a great deal has been written about the suffering of those who are fleeing persecution, displacement, hunger and war, in Nadir Laura Fusco attempts to record the voices of the refugees themselves, especially the women and the children. Nadir is a book about desert caravans, dangerous sea crossings and desperate marches, about